Including the closely related terms trees, and planting.
… including selecting trees or hedgerows to plant that will maximise sequestering potential, improving land and woodland management practices and rewilding. Changes in climate are already happening and Waverley will look to mitigate the impact it has already caused. High level targets We will: Produce a Tree and Hedgerow Planting Policy and Action Plan by 2021 to establish…
… a c t C o - b e n e fi ts Organisational Emissions O1 Work with SCC to map out opportunities for solar generation on Waverley assets and tree/hedgerow planting 2020 D £ L O2 Identify and resolve any barriers to use of existing Mod.Gov by all councillors and officers to access and use all committee papers electronically. 2021- 22 D £ L O3 Full Council and Standards…
… emissions (40%), emissions from the industrial and commercial sector (20%), and domestic sector emissions (40%). Offset emissions in the borough from land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) were 61 ktCO2e. Despite the 33% tree coverage across Waverley land use offsets only a minority of the borough emissions. The 2015 footprint figure will be the one used as a baseline which…
… an element of heat loss and some new technologies essential to future decarbonisation will not be readily available until post 2030. We anticipate that new actions to offset carbon locally such as Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs)3 will close this gap. The council will investigate all possible options to sequester carbon locally including, tree preservation and afforestation, rewilding…
… the period of this plan Work with partners to reduce the volume of commercial and industrial waste, a large proportion of Waverley’s waste stream, in line with the proposed reduction in household waste. Focus on Land Use and Adaptation Offsetting by sequestering carbon will be essential; Waverley already has a 33% tree coverage. All forms of carbon sequestering will need consideration…